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"I like my beer like I like my violence: domestic” has been posted on many bar signs. The bars possibly thought that the “joke” promotes domestic beer, but many patrons believed that it was not a joke and that domestic violence is never funny. The bar signs usually have been taken down quickly.

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I like my beer like I like my violence
Domestic
by pretty fly for a wifi, May 12, 2011

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Just had a guy at the bar w a Tshirt on that said ‘I like my violence like I like my beer....... Domestic’. Hahaha! #NASCAR #SFB
11:21 PM - 14 Nov 2011

EaterHouston Bistro Apologizes for Domestic Violence Sign
Monday, April 15, 2013, by Paula Forbes
Roots Bistro in Houston, Texas posted the above sign outside their restaurant over the weekend, which reads “Beer Should Be Like Violence: Domestic.” Ouch. Needless to say, people were not pleased.

EaterAustin Bar Employee Fired Over Domestic Violence Sign
Monday, October 7, 2013, by Paula Forbes
Today in gross things: Austin, TX bar Minibar (no relation to the José Andrés restaurant of the same name) apparently posted a sign outside this weekend that read “I like my beer like I like my violence: domestic.”

Daily News (New York, NY)Philadelphia bar staffer fired for joke about domestic violence on sidewalk sign
The sign at Bar Ly in Philadelphia’s Chinatown read, ‘I like my beer like I like my violence ... Domestic,’ which led one passerby to complain via social media. The restaurant soon apologized and announced the person who wrote it was fired.
BY LEE MORAN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 11:54 AM

EaterAnother Bar Makes Terrible Domestic Violence Joke
Tuesday, May 27, 2014, by Khushbu Shah
It’s the unfunny joke that never seems to go away: Yet another bar has posted a joke that reads: “I like my beer like I like my violence: Domestic.” Eater Dallas notes that Scruffy Duffies in Plano, Texas posted the horrific analogy on its chalkboard menu this past weekend. Patron Courtney Williams discovered the sign when she went to the bar with friends Saturday night. Williams writes in a Facebook post that she had to ask multiple managers to take down the “joke” — which was apparently written by a female bartender — before it was eventually removed.
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The sheer number of institutions that have posted the tasteless “joke” is saddening: A bar in Austin, a bistro in Houston, and bars in Philadelphia and Montreal have all posted iterations of the analogy.